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Tuesday, November 7. 2006
A short overview of BrainKing history (part 5)
- May 2003 - A controversal game of Gothic Chess has been added to the site. Actually, it was launched in March 2003 and announced as the Event of the Year (almost), although there was actually nothing to celebrate (but this fact was revealed later). For those who don't know the details - this chess variant is very similar to Capablanca Chess, which was invented many many years ago, but unlike Capablanca Chess (which is free to use), Gothic Chess was presented as a "licenced game", although the only difference (compared to Capablanca Chess) is in the start positions of two pieces. Since the "licence" attribute caused more problems than advantages (were there any at all?), it's not a big surprise that the game was completely removed from the site in 2005.
Anyway, this experience gave us an enlightment - don't bother to deal with anyone who wants to misuse your own popularity to promote his licenced product, it's a waste of time (and nerves). There are thousands of free games, which are not of a worse quality. And everyone can be happy. - June 2003 - Battleboats, Screen Chess and Crazy Screen Chess were added to the site. Since these games introduced a new game type where it is necessary to set up a start position before the game actually starts, a new page Game Editors was launched as well. Its purpose was to maintain a list of favourite start positions or unfinished patterns (for every user separately), in order to use them in games quickly, without a need to define them each time from scratch. And since many players (including me) are too lazy to create a start position manually, piece by piece, a one-click random position generator was added as well. It's a neat feature if you want to start a game as soon as possible.
And because BrainKing's primary focus is Chess, I added something new for Chess players too. Every Chess game page was enhanced by a new link "download pgn code", in order to get the particular game notation in a well-known format, which can be used to import the game to many Chess programs and continue to play/analyze outside BrainKing.
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Mon, 18.04.2011 16:15
I understand the ins and outs of what you are trying to achi eve
Sun, 17.04.2011 19:38
True, true. I will add it to t he list. Thank you.Comments ()
Sun, 17.04.2011 18:45
Actually, for me, Move and Sta y Here, seems to take me to th e Next Game. Not the main page , as you say above. S [...]Comments ()
Wed, 25.08.2010 08:46
I didn't test RSS feeds yet, s o it's possible there is some glitch I am not aware of yet. By the way, 76 BrainKin [...]Comments ()
Tue, 24.08.2010 18:50
Great news, but just to note, the RSS feed for the game list currently does not work corre ctly when using the IPv6 [...]Comments ()
Sun, 21.03.2010 22:18
If your settings don't delete "form and search history", the n you can click in the name bo x when it is empty and i [...]Comments ()
Sat, 20.03.2010 13:04
ah, darn...the only thing i'd want to change my username to is one character longer than t he username field will a [...]Comments ()
Sat, 20.03.2010 13:02
sounds great to me...even thou gh i've never changed my usern ame in all the years i've been on brainking. maybe i w [...]Comments ()
Sat, 20.03.2010 12:01
even if do not change name eve ry 2 weeks you can forget your email... I do not like to muc h opponents name changin [...]Comments ()
Sat, 20.03.2010 02:31
will that stop the fellowships being deleted?Comments ()
Wed, 17.03.2010 17:08
Care to enter a bet as to how many submissions you'll get if you offer as a prize 6 months rook level?Comments ()
Mon, 15.03.2010 21:32
I was thinking of that and I e ven started a logo contest on Facebook (when our page was no t infected by spammers). [...]Comments ()
Mon, 15.03.2010 21:24
BrainKing logo: why not delega te this? Make it a competition . With all those members, payi ng or not, there's surel [...]Comments ()
Wed, 30.12.2009 00:59
hmm... seems like the simpler solution (no weekends at all) does not mean the simplest tra nsition between the two [...]Comments ()
Wed, 30.12.2009 00:56
The only point I see in using weekend days is when you play 1 or 2 day games but only get online 5 days a week (an [...]Comments ()